uid range on Ultrix
Pradeep Chetal
chetal at flume.zk3.dec.com
Thu Jul 26 23:29:22 AEST 1990
In article <26ADE591.9398 at orion.oac.uci.edu>, iglesias at orion.oac.uci.edu
(Mike Iglesias) writes:
|>
|>
|> It appears from the /etc/adduser script that the maximum uid Ultrix
|> can handle is 32000, and tests seem to prove that out. Is there some
|> reason that the maximum uid is limited to 32000, when it could go as
|> high as 32767? We have uids grouped by department, and we'd really
|> like to be able to be able to use uids between 32000 and 32767. Does
|> Ultrix v4.0 have the same restriction?
|>
|> Thanks
|>
|> Mike Iglesias
|> University of California, Irvine
|> Internet: iglesias at orion.oac.uci.edu
|> BITNET: iglesias at uci
|> uucp: ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
Yup, Ultrix 4.0 HAS the same restriction.
This is for POSIX compliance.
/Pradeep
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